To the stories that you have told, including the story of veronicas family. Very moving. If i were a justice, the commitment i would make to you and to all people affected by follows is that i would the law as you enacted it, and i have no agenda. I would not be coming in with any agenda. I would do equal justice under the law for all, and not try to force or disrupt in any way the quality choices that you and your colleagues have adopted. Sen. Hirono so are you saying that the impact of the Affordable Care act on the millions of people who rely upon it, that you would deem to be policy considerations that we should address . Sen. Hirono senator, i think that you choose the law and you have structured the Affordable Care act. You set the policies. And i think when a court has to interpret those statutes or decide how it applies in a Certain Circumstance, the court looks to traditional legal materials, looks to the briefs, listens to the real world impacts on the litigants before the co
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Confirmation hearings. This portion included hearings from senators kamala harris, john kennedy and marsha blackburn. I apologize. Senator harris, is she available . Harris. There you are. We see you. Can you Say Something . Can you hear me, senator . Sen harris yes i can. Great. The floor is yours. Sen harris thank you. I want to extend greetings to judge barrett. I look forward to our conversation this evening. Judge barrett thank you, senator. Sen harris before i begin, i want to take a moment to talk directly to the American People. About where we are and how we got here. We are in the middle of a deadly pandemic that has hit our country harder than any other country in the world. More than 215,000 of our fellow americans have died. Millions more, including the president , republican members of this committee, and more than 100 frontline workers here at the capitol complex have been infected. This pandemic has led to a crash, causingic millions of workers to lose their jobs without
Continues to roll downhill. This morning we learned that another 1. 2 million americans filed for unemployment far more than any time during the Great Recession that began in 2008. Our two parties dont agree on many things and that is no secret. The Trump Administration has bungled this crisis from the very beginning and even now is convening from one self inflicted crisis to the next. Democrats believe congress has a moral obligation to step into the breach. To help americans put food on the table and keep a roof over their heads and to save our economy from a deeper recession and longer recovery and fight this disease with all the resources and wherewithal the great nation can bring to bear. So after the senate begin majority failed in spectacular fashion to put together a bill even its own members could support h democrats have engaged in arduous negotiations with the white house trying to impress upon the gravity of the situation. We have made some progress this week but not enough
Hill, House Speaker nancy pelosi and Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer held a briefing with reporters to talk about negotiations taking place on future Coronavirus Relief legislation. This is half an hour. Rep. Pelosi good morning, ask everyone. We gather here today in the midst of our negotiations on how we can defeat the virus, how we can keep people employed, how we can put money in the pockets of the American People. To do so in a way that is valuesbased and can be done with the most, shall we say, what would be the word . Bipartisanship possible. That is our goal. It is what we have done four times already with covid hills. Four times, all bipartisan. We need that because we have to have a signature from the president and a vote in the senate. But we stand by our heroes act, which does just that, keeps people working. Healthcare care workers, first responders, sanitation, transportation, etc. Teachers, teachers, teachers. Next is to end the virus, contain the virus through test